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1930: The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines limiting sex, violence and original ideas in movies.
1932: Ford unveils its V-8 engine; public suggests that maybe if they put it inside a car then they'd really have something.
1972: Official Beatles Fan Club closes down.
1596 René Descartes; 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn; 1878 Jack Johnson; 1903 Arthur Godfrey; 1924 Leo Buscaglia; 1926 John Fowles; 1927 Cesar Chavez, William Daniels; 1928 Gordie Howe; 1929 Liz Claiborne; 1932 John Jakes; 1935 Herb Alpert, Richard Chamberlain, Judith Rossner; 1940 Barney Frank; 1946 Gabe Kaplan; 1948 David Eisenhower, Albert Gore Jr., Rhea Perlman.
1932: Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic.
1909: Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge opens, linking Manhattan to Queens; New York mayor declares it "Groovy."
“What is Jeopardy debuted on this day in 1964?”
1899 Irving Thalberg
1937 Warren Beatty
1945 Eric Clapton
1957 Paul Reiser
1964 Tracy Chapman
1968 Celine Dion
1795: Beethoven debuts as pianist in Vienna.
1932: Jack Benny debuts on radio.
1951: The King & I opens on Broadway.
1959: Some Like it Hot premieres.
1962: Jack Paar's final appearance on The Tonight Show.
1790 John Tyler; 1867 Cy Young; 1906 E. Power Biggs; 1916 Eugene J. McCarthy; 1917 Man O' War; 1918 Pearl Bailey, Sam Walton; 1941 Terence Hill; 1943 Eric Idle, Vangelis; 1945 Walt "Clyde" Frazier; 1948 Bud Cort; 1956 LaToya Jackson; 1964 Elle Macpherson
1885: U.S. Salvation Army organized.
1989: I. M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens.
1995: Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up.
1921 Dirk Bogarde; 1924 Freddie Bartholomew; 1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski; 1942 Brian Jones; 1948 Dianne Wiest.
1896: First "Modern" Olympics begin in Athens; several athletes are accused of ingesting souvlaki before events.
1960: D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover ruled "Not really all that obscene" by a very disappointed New York court.
1961: Russian satellite Sputnik 10 carries a dog into orbit; Soviet children are told the dog returned safely and "went to live on nice collective farm out in the country."
1908 David Lean; 1921 Simone Signoret; 1922 Eileen Ford; 1925 Flannery O'Connor; 1928 James Lovell Jr.; 1940 Anita Bryant; 1942 Aretha Franklin; 1944 Frank Oz; 1953 Mary Gross; 1965 Sarah Jessica Parker.
1874 Harry Houdini; 1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; 1895 Arthur Murray; 1909 Clyde Barrow; 1911 Joseph Barbera; 1930 Steve McQueen; 1962 Star Jones.
1958: Elvis gets drafted.
1708: English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth in Scotland; unfortunately, his followers are waiting for him at the Firth of Fifth, and he never takes power.
1775: Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death!" British troops reply, "Okey dokey," and begin loading their muskets.
1806: Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast in what is now Oregon, find 'Capt. Cook wuz Here 7, March, 1778' carved into a tree.
1857: Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1908 Joan Crawford; 1910 Akira Kurosawa; 1912 Werner von Braun; 1922: Marty Allen; 1937 Craig Breedlove; 1949 Ric Ocasek; 1952 Patricia Richardson.
1733: Joseph Priestly invents seltzer; devotes the rest of his life to experimenting with egg cream flavors.
1895: First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière; audience annoyed by high-priced popcorn and seemingly endless previews of coming attractions.
1923: The first radio broadcast of ice hockey; the win is a TKO in the third round.
1887 Chico Marx; 1908 Louis L'Amour; 1913 Karl Malden; 1930 Pat Robertson, Stephen Sondheim; 1931 William Shatner; 1934 Orrin Hatch; 1952 Bob Costas; 1956 Lena Olin; 1959 Matthew Modine.
1955: The Brooklyn Bulletin asks Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums." Fans continue to do so anyway and the team moves to Los Angeles in a snit.
1961: Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club.
1963: Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes.
1969: John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton; sadly, it isn't their last.
1980: President Carter announces the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in protest of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980: Somebody shoots J.R.
1816 Charlotte Bronte; 1916 Harold Robbins; 1918 Howard Cosell; 1929 James Coco; 1946 Timothy Dalton; 1958 Gary Oldman; 1962 Matthew Broderick, Rosie O'Donnell.
1673: Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers, who then sign it over to a guy named "Vinnie" to cover some gambling debts.
1930: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto; then again, so does everyone else in the same theater watching Disney's cartoon The Chain Gang which debuts Mickey's dog, so it really isn't such a big deal.
1931: First electric shavers (Schick) go on sale in U.S.
1961: Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced (Hee, hee, heeeeee!).
1994: Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy.
1869 Neville Chamberlain; 1886 Edward Everett Horton; 1925 Peter Graves; 1927 John Harold Kander, George Plimpton; 1932 John Updike.